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Topics: Women authors, Poetry, Soviet imprint, Women Writers
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Topics: Women authors, Yiddish language -- Study and teaching
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Topics: Women authors, Yiddish poetry -- Israel, Women Writers
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Topics: Women authors, Yiddish poetry
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Topics: Women writers, Yiddish literature, Short stories, Yiddish
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Topics: Women writers, Authors, Yiddish, Women authors, Yiddish poetry, Poésie yiddish
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Topics: World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews, Diaries, Autobiography, Persecution -- Jews
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Topics: Children's literature, Yiddish -- Bibliography, Littérature de jeunesse yiddish -- Bibliographie,...
online resource (430 pages)
Topics: Judaism -- Liturgy -- Texts, Judaïsme -- Liturgie -- Textes, Judaism -- Liturgy
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Topics: Tehinnot -- Texts, Tehinnot
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Topics: Tehinnot -- Texts, Jewish women -- Prayers and devotions, Judaism -- Prayers and devotions --...
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Topics: Tehinnot, Judaism -- Prayers and devotions, Jewish women -- Religious life, Judaism -- Liturgy --...
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Topics: American literature -- 20th century -- Translations into Yiddish, Children's literature, American...
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Topics: World War, 1939-1945 -- United States, Reconstruction (1939-1951), World politics, Democracy,...
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Topics: Great Britain. Army. Jewish Legion, Military participation -- Jewish, World War, 1914-1918 --...
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Topics: Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949 -- Israel -- Yad Mordekhai, Yad Mordekhai (Israel), Israel - Yad...
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Topics: Tehinnot, Judaism -- Prayers and devotions -- Yiddish, Jewish women -- Prayers and devotions,...
252 pages : 22 cm
Topics: Piekarsky, Itshak, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Personal narratives, Jews --...
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Topics: Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw -- History, Juifs -- Pologne -- Varsovie -- Histoire, Ethnic relations,...
3 volumes : 24 cm
Topics: Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw -- History, Juifs -- Pologne -- Varsovie -- Histoire, Ethnic relations,...
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Topics: Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw -- History, Juifs -- Pologne -- Varsovie -- Histoire, Ethnic relations,...
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Topics: Yiddish poetry, Poésie yiddish
The occult was a fixture of Yiddish popular culture in early twentieth-century Eastern Europe. Yiddish-speaking Jews in Eastern Europe held spiritualist séances, consulted with psychic mediums, read their horoscopes in the Yiddish press, consumed Yiddish occult literature, and attended occult stage shows featuring telepathy and hypnosis. In this talk, Samuel Glauber-Zimra will outline the contours of modern occultism in Yiddish popular culture, from its dissemination in the popular press to...
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Topics: Yiddish poetry, Poets, Yiddish
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Topics: Menahem Mendel, of Kotsk, 1787-1859, Hasidism -- Poland -- Kock, Jews -- Poland -- Kock, Gur...
Introduction by Susan Bronson, executive director, Yiddish Book Center. Activist and poet Irena Klepfisz reflects on the original 1995 “Di froyen” conference, and the growing prominence of Yiddish women writers, translators, artists, and scholars from the beginnings of the modern feminist movement until today, in conversation with Agi Legutko.
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A reading, discussion, and musical performance of Aaron Zeitlin’s poem “Zeks shures” (“Six Lines”) in English translation by the Yiddish Book Center’s Translation Initiative for National Poetry Month. “Who needs a poem anyway—and especially in Yiddish?” That is the question posed by Aaron Zeitlin’s short Yiddish poem, “Six Lines.” This program will ask a related question: “Who needs a poem anyway—especially translated from Yiddish?” Join Madeleine Cohen, the...
Deborah Dash Moore, editor in chief of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, discusses women’s roles across literature and culture and the rise of feminism after 1973. Deborah Dash Moore is the Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. An American Jewish historian, her work focuses on urban Jews. She is the editor in chief of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization. She also served as co-editor of The Posen...
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Thanks to the development of our Yiddish OCR (optical character recognition) software, anyone will now be able to search our digital Yiddish library collection in Yiddish. Join us for a quick sneak peek of this revolutionary breakthrough. Recorded live at the Yiddish Book Center on October 20, 2019.
Is it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are based on Holocaust survivors? And how has Yiddish, a language without a country, influenced Hollywood? These and other questions are explored in the new stunning and rich anthology, How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish, edited by award-winning authors and scholars Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert. This talk was...
For The Dairy Restaurant, Ben Katchor retells the history of where we choose to eat—a history that starts with the first man allowed to enter a walled garden and encouraged by the garden's owner to enjoy its fruits. In this brilliant, "sui generis" book, Ben Katchor illuminates the unique historical confluence of events and ideas that led to the proliferation of the dairy restaurant in New York City. In words and his inimitable drawings, he begins with Adam entering Eden and eating...
Whether it was on the Lower East Side of New York or in the shtetlekh of Eastern Europe, Yiddish speakers were voracious readers of Jules Verne (1828–1905), the 19th century’s most celebrated author of science fiction. With stories of adventure that crossed borders and investigated new technologies, these books had a direct appeal for Yiddish readers that were daily faced by the challenges of industrialization and mass immigration. But does Jules Verne en français really resemble his...
An illustrated talk by his great-grandson, Yiddish Book Center bibliographer David Mazower. A yeshiva student who became a provocative dramatist, bestselling novelist, and embattled prophet, Sholem Asch was Yiddish literature’s first modern celebrity. One of the best-known Jewish public figures for over half a century, Asch’s writings included bestsellers in English translation, and smash hits on the Yiddish stages of Warsaw and New York. His 1907 play God of Vengeance resulted in a famed...
To coincide with the publication of Ilan Stavans' Selected Translations: Poems 2000–2020 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021), which features around a hundred of his translations of poems originally written in nearly a dozen different languages (including Yiddish, Hebrew, Ladino, Spanish, Russian, German, Portuguese, and the indigenous tongue K'iche'), he reflects on the act and art of living a Jewish life in, through, and by means of translation. For over two decades, Stavans, the...
This talk centers on Yiddish writer Chava Rosenfarb’s early years in Montreal in the 1950s, the vibrant Yiddish literary world that she encountered there, and the institutions, like the Jewish Public Library, that helped to nurture her career. It will also look at the portrayal of Montreal in Rosenfarb’s fiction. Goldie Morgentaler is Professor of English at the University of Lethbridge. She is the translator from Yiddish to English of much of Chava Rosenfarb’s work, including...
Sutzkever Essential Prose brings to light for English readers the largely unknown prose of a seminal Yiddish poet. Avrom Sutzkever wrote the works in this volume over a span of more than 30 years, blurring the lines between fiction, memoir, and poetry; between real and imagined; between memory and metaphor. Now, through Zackary Sholem Berger’s translations, English readers can enter into an array of compelling, haunting scenes drawn from Sutzkever’s vast imagination and from the unique life...
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A panel discussion with Caraid O’Brien, Anna Rozenfeld, and moderator Alyssa Quint. Anna Rozenfeld speaks about the artistic career of famed Yiddish actress and singer Diana Blumenfeld (1903–61)—her work in prewar Poland and the Warsaw ghetto, and the role she played internationally after World War II, acting in the spirit of Yidishkayt and contributing to cultural salvation. Blumenfeld’s Yiddish voice—in person and on radio airwaves—took on a public profile of unity, reassurance,...
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The House of Memory: Jewish Stories from Jewish Women of Latin America was the first anthology of Latin American Jewish women’s writing to be published in the United States. Marjorie Agosin, editor of the anthology, joined by Ruth Behar, Andrea Jeftanovic, Perla Sneh, and Nora Strejilevich, the Yiddish-speaking writers whose work was included in this ground-breaking collection. They talk about the anthology and read a few selections. Presented as part of the Yiddish Book Center’s 2022...
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A prerecorded program of readings and songs from Yiddish works in translation by Yiddish writers from Ukraine including Blume Lempel, Mendel Osherowitz, Dora Shulner, and Sholem Aleichem. Translations by Ellen Cassedy, Sharon Power, Elena Hoffenberg, and Hillel Halkin. Readings by actors Hal Robinson, Eleanor Reissa, Caraid O’Brien, and Mikhl Yashinsky, with music by Eleanor Reissa and Frank London. The long and complicated history of Jews in Ukraine was not always a happy one, but it would...
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In a lively discussion, the book’s co-editors Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert will talk about this momentous and diverse anthology of the influences and inspirations of Yiddish voices in America—radical, dangerous, and seductive, but also sweet, generous, and full of life. Is it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are based on Holocaust survivors? And how has Yiddish, a language...
Translator Yermiyahu Ahron Taub in conversation about his latest work in translation, Dineh: An Autobiographical Novel by Ida Maze. Maze interweaves Dineh’s story with portraits of others, chiefly women and girls, in her community. We meet the mysterious seamstress Shprintse; Beyle, who leaves home to work as a maidservant in Minsk; and Hinde, who falls in love with a young nobleman, among numerous unforgettable others. Maze unflinchingly examines the lives of women, writing about class...
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From the Jewish Provinces showcases a brilliant and nearly forgotten voice in Yiddish letters. An insistently original writer whose abrupt departure from the literary scene is the stuff of legend, Fradl Shtok composed stories that describe the travails of young women looking for love and desire in a world that spurns them. These women struggle with disability, sexual violence, and unwanted marriage, striving to imagine themselves as artists or losing themselves in fantasy worlds. The men around...
Mila Goldberg, who recently donated her father’s Yiddish library to the Yiddish Book Center, tells the story of her father’s amazing library. Her parents were Polish Jews who married in April 1939, one month before the Nazi invasion. Forced to make a life-or-death decision, they fled east and became refugees in the USSR, where they were sent to a Siberian gulag and later lived in Central Asia. They had a bittersweet return to Poland and in their later life lived in Paris.
From folk remedies to patient medical records to lectures, speeches, and pamphlets about contemporaneous medical practices, there are rich archival materials at YIVO that shed light on Jewish women’s health at the turn of the 20th century. This talk by director of the YIVO Archives, Dr. Stefanie Halpern, will share documents and ephemera from the newly digitized Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections project that highlight Jewish women’s health and medicine in Eastern Europe. Presented...
The Rivals and Other Stories, by Jonah Rosenfeld and translated by Rachel Mines, introduces nineteen of Rosenfeld’s short stories to an English-reading audience for the first time. A major literary figure and frequent contributor to the Yiddish-language newspaper Forverts from the 1920s to the mid-1930s, Yiddish writer Jonah Rosenfeld was recognized during and after his lifetime as an explorer of human psychology. His work foregrounds loneliness, social anxiety, and people’s frustrated...
Yiddish singer and scholar Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel presents a lively multi-media talk about Jennie Goldstein, whose myriad roles on and off the Yiddish (and English) stage included child star, melodrama queen, comedienne, lyricist, and theater proprietor. Presented as part of the Yiddish Book Center’s 2022 Decade of Discovery: Women in Yiddish. Cosponsored by the New York Public Library.
Yermiyahu Ahron Taub discusses his latest work in translation, Dineh: An Autobiographical Novel by Ida Maze. The program will include a short introduction and reading from the work followed by a Q&A. Available in English-translation for the first time, Dineh, posthumously published, is autobiographical Yiddish-language novel by Ida Maze (1893-1962.) Dineh is a pastorale laced in beauty and sorrow and a bildungsroman told from the point of view of a young girl. Set entirely in what is now...
What role did women play in the making of Jewish modernity? Standard accounts of modern history and literary culture describe the process of Jews becoming modern as a story of Jews becoming men. As a result we know too little about women writers, artists, and intellectuals who participated in transforming Jewish culture in the twentieth century. Allison Schacter offers a counter history of Jewish modernity by looking at the women writers, in the interwar period, who embraced the transgressive...
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A special talk-back and Q&A with Di Froyen co-writers Melissa Weisz and Malky Goldman, director Rachel Botchan, along with actor Caraid O'Brien and New Yiddish Rep's director, David Mandelbaum. (In English) Presented in partnership with the New Yiddish Rep and as part of the Yiddish Book Center’s 2022 Decade of Discovery: Women in Yiddish. Di Froyen tells the story of a woman from the Hasidic community of Brooklyn who has fled an abusive marriage and after being excommunicated and...
Worlds Apart is a remarkable family memoir that tells the story of two brothers, Adolphe and Marcus. Separated at the turn of the twentieth century, Adolphe settles in Switzerland, whereas Marcus ends up in Moscow, inspired by his Communist believes. They would never meet again. In her first book, BBC journalist and author Nadia Ragozhina rediscovers the missing part of the family and pieces together the stories hidden for generations. The lives of Adolphe's and Marcus' daughters and...
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A lively conversation with translators whose work focuses on women writers – lesser known writers and some unknown. They share the stories of the women writers they’ve discovered and shed light on the lives and work of these writers. Presented as part of the Yiddish Book Center’s 2022 Decade of Discovery – Women in Yiddish.
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In this roundtable discussion, in conjunction with a 2022 production at the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, three commentators with a deep engagement with Asch discuss his extraordinary life and career – and why his plays still matter. In connection with the production at Milwaukee Chamber Theatre , this program is part of a series of public programs organized by the Sam and Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, supported in part by a generous Arts &...
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A special talk to celebrate publication of the The Glass Plates of Lublin . The book features selections from the 2,700 glass photographic plates discovered in the attic of a nineteenth-century apartment building in the former Jewish section of Lublin, Poland. Taken between 1913 and 1930, they capture the teeming life of Lublin before the war, at a time when Jews composed a third of the city’s population. The images include Jews and Poles, children and the elderly, young lovers, workers,...
"The slim volume of Isaac Babel’s Red Cavalry (1926) contains thirty-five short stories set in the Soviet-Polish War of 1920, but its modest size belies its significance. The pieces roughly follow the chronological order of the 1920 campaign and are threaded together by a first-person narrator, some secondary figures, and setting. Compact, the book casts a vast shadow, more typical of a novel or a war epic. As a work of art, it has remained unique. Neither Russian nor Russian Jewish...
Founded in 1948 by Moses Asch, Folkways Records sought to record music that no other record company was interested in, including folk traditions from every corner of the world and the most experimental contemporary creations of avant-garde poets and composers. But Asch, the son of one of the world's most prolific and controversial Yiddish writers, Sholem Asch, also had another agenda: to document the music and spoken word poetry of Jewish immigrants who, by the time he started the label, had...
Since its launch ten years ago, the Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project has collected over 1,000 oral history interviews in seven different languages on six continents. In this multimedia presentation, the director of the Project, Christa Whitney, will reflect on a decade of collecting stories about Yiddish language and culture through interviews with people of all ages and backgrounds. Christa will share some of the most compelling stories in celebration of the Project’s...
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How does Jewish identity play out in the families of Yiddish writers? What stories get passed down, and what are the burdens and pleasures of keeping alive the memory of an illustrious relative? This conversation brings together descendants of four famous Yiddish writers, all of whom migrated from Europe to America. Itzik Gottesman is the son of the well-known poet Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman. He is a senior lecturer at the University of Texas, a specialist on East European Jewish folklore, and...
Most fans don’t know how far the Jewish presence in baseball extends beyond a few famous players such as Greenberg, Rosen, Koufax, Holtzman, Green, Ausmus, Youkilis, Braun, and Kinsler. In fact, that presence extends to the baseball commissioner Bud Selig, labor leaders Marvin Miller and Don Fehr, owners Jerry Reinsdorf and Stuart Sternberg, officials Theo Epstein and Mark Shapiro, sportswriters Murray Chass, Ross Newhan, Ira Berkow, and Roger Kahn, and even famous Jewish baseball fans like...
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Christa Whitney and Carole Renard will offer a virtual tour of the Wexler Oral History Project’s online collection and explain how to use the new enhanced features to the collection made possible through the 2017-2020 National Endowment for the Humanities grant that was completed in September 2020. Carole Renard is the Wexler Oral History Project’s Coordinator. She began working with the Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project in 2016 as an intern processing interviews, and...
The 1940s and '50s were a golden age for primers, workbooks, and educational material designed for children in Yiddish schools. The books and notebooks themselves have much to tell us—but so does what the users of these materials left behind: doodles, addresses, jokes, and other marginalia that provide a glimpse into the inner world of schoolchildren in an educational system that today exists only in memory. Miriam Borden has become a collector of these archival objects and recently won the...
What was it like to leave a shtetl or city in Eastern Europe heading to an unknown land? How did expectations of “ di goldene medine (the golden land)” match up with first impressions when Jewish immigrants landed on American shores? Where did Yiddish-speaking immigrants find a sense of home and community once they arrived? In this multimedia presentation, Christa Whitney will share and discuss video excerpts of oral histories related to stories of Jewish immigration and adaptation...
Melissa Martens Yaverbaum, executive director of the Council of American Jewish Museums and curator of Project Mah Jongg, will share the surprising backstory of mah jongg—a game more widely known than understood. Mah jongg made a lasting impression on American audiences, including generations of Jewish women starting in the 1920s. Yaverbaum will reveal the mysteries and meanings behind this cultural touchstone.
How did Yiddish journalists and intellectuals respond to the persistent discrimination and violence against African Americans in the US in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? How did they understand the problem? In this talk, Tony Michels addresses these questions in order to gain a historical perspective on the Jewish encounter with race and racism in the United States. Tony Michels is the George L. Mosse Professor of American Jewish History and director of the Mosse/Weinstein...
Against the backdrop of an international cooperative movement, At Home in Utopia tells the story of the most militant of these apartment complexes, the United Workers Cooperative Colony, aka "the Coops." Built when the Bronx was still mostly fields and swamps, and linked to the garment factories “downtown” by the newly extended subway, the Coops was for a few years the largest cooperative “house” in America, accommodating 2,000 people, most of whom were Jews and many of whom...
The current brouhaha over immigration policy is nothing new. Neither is the defamation of immigrants as criminals or political undesirables. While American nativist animus today falls upon Mexican, Central American, and Muslim migrants, about 100 years ago this same hatred was aimed at the Jews. Taking aim with theirs poison pens, the artists of Der groyser kundes, the Lower East Side’s premier Yiddish satire weekly, attacked the Immigration Quota Acts of 1921 and 1924, which were enacted to...
Once a thriving vacation spot in the Catskill Mountains, today the Borscht Belt is recalled through the nostalgic lens of summer swims, Saturday night dances, and comedy performances. But its current state, like that of many other formerly glorious regions, is nothing like its earlier status. Forgotten about and exhausted, much of the Borscht Belt's structural environment has been left to decay. This illustrated talk features Marisa Scheinfeld’s photographs of abandoned sites in the Catskill...
Join author Shachar M. Pinsker for a multimedia presentation on the place of coffeehouses in the creation of modern Jewish culture from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. Shachar’s book, A Rich Brew: How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture , tells the story of the role of the coffeehouse as central to the modern Jewish experience in a time of migration and urbanization, from Odessa, Warsaw, Vienna, and Berlin to New York City and Tel Aviv, and why Jews became their most devoted...
Josh “Socalled” Dolgin is a pianist, accordionist, producer, journalist, photographer, filmmaker, magician, cartoonist, and puppet maker based in Montreal, Quebec. One of the twenty-first century's most forward-looking young visionaries, he has lectured and led master classes in music festivals around the world—from Moscow to Paris, London to LA, and Krakow to San Francisco—and has performed on every continent. Josh’s multimedia presentation will consider Yiddish sheet music from the...
A young couple is separated by an ocean, long-lost siblings are reunited in the new country, and proud immigrant parents watch their child take on a profession they themselves could never have imagined. These are some of the transformations of personal relationships explored in works of Yiddish literature newly translated into English and recently published in the 2020 Pakn Treger Digital Translation Issue: Yiddish Comes to America. This program will include readings by the translators of three...
Filmmaker Erik Anjou’s documentary, Deli Man , tells the story of deli owner Ziggy Gruber. In Houston, Texas, third-generation 'deli man' Ziggy Gruber has built arguably the finest delicatessen restaurant in the US. His story—augmented by the stories of iconic delis such as Katz's, 2nd Avenue Deli, Nate 'n Al, Carnegie, and the Stage—embodies a tradition indelibly linked to its savory, nostalgic foods. Join us for an engaging conversation with Erik Anjou, who will share the story he...
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The poet Bertha Kling attracted some of New York's leading Yiddish writers, artists, and musicians to her literary salon. They gathered every weekend for several decades in her apartment on 181st St. in the West Bronx. Join Dr. Steven Payne in conversation with Yiddish Book Center bibliographer and editorial director, David Mazower, for a virtual tour of Bertha Kling's neighborhood in the early-to-mid-twentieth century. We'll see the neighborhood and apartment buildings where Bertha Kling lived...
Klezmer: Music and Community in Twentieth-Century Philadelphia provides a lively and detailed overview of the folk musical tradition as practiced in Philadelphia's twentieth-century Jewish community. Through interviews, archival research, and recordings, Hankus Netsky constructs an ethnographic portrait of Philadelphia’s Jewish musicians, the environment they worked in, and the repertoire they performed at local Jewish lifestyle and communal celebrations.
"Jewish Women of the World, Unite!" In 1908 a Yiddish newspaper summoned the Jewish immigrant women of New York's Lower East Side to unite—not to start a revolution but rather to observe the Sabbath. The Shabes Zhurnal , an effort led by Jewish rabbis and communal leaders, was chagrined at the blows immigration and adaptation had imposed on Jewish families and homed in on Jewish women as potential saviors. In this illustrated talk, drawing on cookbooks, memoirs, and advice columns,...
Kenneth Turan is a retired film critic for the Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio's Morning Edition , a former staff writer for the Washington Post , and director of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. In this program, he will touch on aspects of some of the great movies that speak to the Jewish-American experience
What Remains: The Suitcases of Charles F. at Willard State Hospital (SUNY, 2020) is about a poor, Yiddish-speaking, Russian-Jewish immigrant tailor who, in 1946, was institutionalized at Willard, the famous psychiatric hospital in Upstate New York. Charles F. spoke Yiddish with his doctors and talked to ghosts in Yiddish. Like thousands of other patients, he arrived at Willard, abandoned by his family, with only a few items in three suitcases. The suitcases were taken away from him by the staff...
An illustrated presentation about the cosmopolitan literary salon of Yiddish poet Bertha Kling. From the 1900s to the 1950s, the Klings' apartment in the Bronx was a gathering place for Yiddish writers, musicians, and actors, somewhere to hear the latest Yiddish modernist poetry, literary gossip, and news from Paris, Warsaw, or Hollywood. David Mazower—the Yiddish Book Center's bibliographer and editorial director—draws on rare family archives to explore this unique group of Bronx...
As editor Madeleine (Mindl) Cohen writes in her introduction to the 2020 Pakn Treger Digital Translation Issue: Yiddish Comes to America, "While there are some extremely funny and touching moments in these newly translated works of Yiddish literature, there are very few rosy portrayals of 'di goldene medine,' the golden country of America." In this program, Mindl talks with The Shmooze's Lisa Newman about the issue's theme, its broader resonance, and the Yiddish writers whose work...
In Search of Israeli Cuisine is a portrait of the Israeli people told through food. The film profiles chefs, home cooks, vintners, and cheesemakers drawn from the more than 100 cultures that make up Israel today—Jewish, Arab, Muslim, Christian, Druze. A rich and human story of the people emerges from their food. The film has played in more than 160 festivals and special screenings around the world and has been shown in theaters across the United States and Canada. It is recommended to watch...
Ilan Stavans presents a reading of his play "Kaddish for My Father," directed by Daniel Lombardo, which follows the son of a famous Mexican theater and telenovela actor who lies on his deathbed as he tries to come to terms with the emotional trail his father left behind and with the tension between the public figure and private man. The reading is followed by a brief Q&A. About the playwright: Ilan Stavans is an internationally renowned writer whose books, translated into...
In the first half of the 20th century, Jews went from being almost completely excluded from all jobs in American publishing to being preeminent throughout the book business, with many of the most prestigious and successful publishing houses (including Knopf, Simon & Schuster, and Random House) having been founded by Jewish families and led by Jewish editors. How did the prominence of Jews in publishing influence the history of American literature? And, how, in particular, did it shape a...
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Topics: Hasidism, Jews -- Poland -- Kock, Jews, Poland -- Kock
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Topics: Jews -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal, Juifs -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal, Jews,...
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Topics: Jews -- Israel -- Periodicals, Yiddish literature -- Israel -- Periodicals, Juifs -- Israël --...
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Topics: Zionism, Jews, Canadian, Nineteen twenties, Jews -- Canada
183 pages ; 17 cm
Topics: Short stories, Yiddish, Women Writers
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Topics: Yiddish language -- Study and teaching, Yiddish language
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Topics: Short stories, Yiddish -- Australia, Short stories, Yiddish, Australia
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Topics: Bauman, Mordechai, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives, Holocaust survivors --...
The Yiddish Book Center's fortieth anniversary in 2020 also marks the fortieth anniversary of the Klezmer Conservatory Band (KCB), an internationally renowned Yiddish and klezmer music ensemble. Two of the major players in the flourishing international Yiddish cultural resurgence, the KCB and the Center have been celebrating together throughout the histories of both organizations, beginning with the band’s appearance at the Center’s milestone events in Amherst as early as 1981 and...
Made in the mid-1980s, A Jumpin’ Night in the Garden of Eden was the first film to document the American klezmer revival. For nearly a millennium, vigorous and soulful klezmer had been part of the celebration of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, and in the early decades of the twentieth century it continued to flourish in America. Assimilated and commercialized, this quintessential expression of Yiddish culture was virtually extinct by the time some young musicians went looking for a way to set...
Isaac Babel's writings are subversive masterpieces, challenging the ideology of the early Soviet Union, and resulting in his arrest and execution in 1940. On the 75th anniversary of Isaac Babel's execution, Finding Babel follows Andrei Malaev-Babel, his grandson, on a journey to come closer to some sense of truth. Hoping to better understand Babel's powerful artistic method and elusive persona, Andrei journeys through Ukraine, France and Russia; locations deeply tied to the story of his...
Award-winning journalist Javier Sinay investigates a series of murders from the nineteenth century, unearthing the complex history and legacy of Moisés Ville, the “Jerusalem of South America,” and his personal connection to a little-known period of Jewish history in Argentina.
A meditation on the ways Shakespeare became a litmus test for Yiddish actors, playwrights, and translators, who infused him with a Jewish sensibility often defined by melodrama. Ilan Stavans is an internationally renowned writer whose books, translated into numerous languages, have been adapted into film, theater, TV, and radio. He is the author of the graphic novels El Iluminado (2013) and Angelitos (2017), the award-winning poem "The Wall" (2018), and the forthcoming meditation on...
To launch this year’s Decade of Discovery, professor, literary scholar, and translator Anita Norich joined Lisa Newman, host of The Shmooze , to talk about how she and other scholars have been working for decades to bring the work of Yiddish women writers to the forefront of the Yiddish literary world through scholarship and translation.
In 1986, when her mother died at the age of sixty-four, Eleanor Reissa went through all of her belongings. In the back of her mother’s lingerie drawer, she found an old leather purse with a wad of dried up papers in a brittle baggie: fifty-six letters, handwritten in German by her father, in 1949 – only four years after Auschwitz – to her mother, also a refugee, already living in the United States. Forty years later, Eleanor finally had the letters translated. With her father’s letters...
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